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Ian Hurd and Sadie Barlow: As in 1936, war is not enough to exclude a nation from the Olympic Games
Editor’s note: This is Part 3 in a three-part series from Northwestern University professor Ian Hurd and student Sadie Barlow that explores the history and geopolitics of the Olympics. Read Part 1 and 2 here. The founding myth of the Olympics is that …